Sunday, 14 December 2008

Dorian Gray - no.6

The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde, 2003
Price: £20. Ouch...

History: Xmas 2004, all I wanted was the complete works. Instead I got a small card from my parents reading something along the lines of "Oscar Wilde regrets that it's out of print". I finally got one in the spring of 2005, and it's fantastique! I'm especially fond of the poems in prose. Does this really count as a copy of Dorian? Not as such, but I thought I'd list it anyway...

Look: It's a big hardback thing, with really thin pages...and photos! Not nice to read at all, but it beats not having the "little bits" at all - the essays, poems in prose, those plays and poems which are obscure for good reason...

Introduction/Appendices: Well there are to introductions to the complete works, and an individual introduction to each section (poetry, essays etc) but nothing really specific about Dorian Gray.

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